Community issues

Jordan Westburg’s season-ending surgery serves as a painful reminder of the pitfalls of waiting for injury luck to turn.

There have been few clues from federal prosecutors about why a former campaign manager worried the state senator and co-defendants so much — until now.

A task force of state and local leaders is recommending a roughly $1 billion convention center modernization to boost spending and tourism in downtown Baltimore.

Health authorities say the current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a rare variant of the Ebola disease that has no approved therapeutics or vaccines.

After surviving for nearly three months as a bizarre Baltimore landmark born from a historic winter storm, the massive “Snow Everest” pile near Old Town Mall has finally melted away, leaving behind debris, environmental concerns and a symbol of the city’s costly cleanup effort.

COLUMN | We were at a state park in Kentucky for my wife’s family reunion. It was the kind where someone springs for T-shirts, and the blue-and-gold ones handed out for ours read, “Whole Fam Damily Reunion 2012.” Then the Murdaughs walked in. You know, the Alex Murdaughs.

The George “Spider” Anderson Music & Arts Festival started five years ago with lawn chairs in a vacant lot on Park Heights Avenue. It has exploded even without the Preakness Stakes around the corner.

A 68-year-old Glen Burnie man is accused of carrying out a series of shootings and carjackings across Prince George’s County before an off-duty police officer helped track him down.

A massive early-morning fire tore through a commercial garage in Middle River on Saturday, sending flames shooting into the sky as firefighters worked to bring it under control.

Attorney General Anthony Brown said Friday that he will not bring criminal charges against a Howard County Police officer who chased after a juvenile motorist who later died when her vehicle crashed in a wooded area.

Upperco’s fire department hosts several motorsport events a year in Baltimore County.

The content released by the East Lansing (Michigan) Police Department on Friday afternoon included footage from body cameras worn by six unidentified police officers, audio from 911 calls and a witness video from Biggby Coffee.

Freedman’s State Historical Park honors one of Montgomery County’s greatest success stories.

Marquis Brown, 20, of Washington, was found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of five counts of attempted second-degree murder and related crimes.

COLUMN | Maryland’s new anti-predatory pricing bill seeks to protect residents from grocery stores using data to gouge us. We have to be more careful about what they know about us in the first place.

COLUMN | State Sen. Pam Beidle wanted to give the $400,000 left in her campaign fund to the slate she created. Turns out the rules don’t allow that. What can she do with this small fortune now?

A man and a woman are dead after a shooting in Southwest Baltimore early Friday morning, police said.

One resident likened the situation to a “civil war,” while others called it “taxation without representation.”

While investigating the woman's death, officers learned a man who was in a relationship with her had shot himself in Columbia. The man is being treated at an area hospital, police said.

The suspect in the Valentine's Day slaying of a resident at an upscale Potomac senior home was found incompetent to stand trial.